In this game, you're on your own. You either sink or swim.
First year in the league, it's going to be difficult.
I've always believed that if you cannot do it, then you should not do it.Only when it comes to the point where you've literally dug yourself into a hole, where it's sink or swim, is that viable to me.
It's amazing how fast you learn something if they shove you out on the stage and say, 'Learn it.'
You have to do what the market requires of you... You either keep swimming, or you sink.
In this business you either sink or swim or you don't.
It was such a dramatic escalator that I was on. It was at 90 degrees. I was going straight up like a rocket ship into space. And I was thrown in with the sharks. They said sink or swim in this Cup deal.
They must have a feeling of do or die. It is such an overcrowded profession.
Back then though, you had a few months of training, and then you were just thrown into it.
The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do.
Let' em learn or let' em die
Complex literary works demand an effort from the reader that is becoming harder to justify, given the sink-or-swim pressures to make profitable products for a global marketplace.
I've had a lot of baptism by fire.
I guess it's ridiculously romantic, but I wanted to be a full tilt, sink-or-swim writer.
